Roger Scruton: Want to Save the Planet? Turn Right

Roger Scruton, Britain's foremost conservative philosopher, offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.

By

Raymond Zhong

April 13, 2012 7:09 p.m. ET

Brinkworth, England

Environmentalists might think they've scored an unlikely ally in Roger Scruton, arguably Britain's most famous philosopher—and a proud conservative. But Mr. Scruton's case for environmentalism is classically conservative, centered on the love of home, the importance of local institutions, and especially the suspicion of state power.